it's also highly possible in the original production they actually used a real bear for this and it was just thrown in to fuck with/surprise the audience

Also, Bohemia has a coast in one of his plays

And in the time it takes for an armada from Turkey to get to Cyprus a messenger manages to get from Cyprus to Venice to warn them and request reinforcements for Cyprus which arrive before the Turkish forces do somehow.

Then the Turkish fleet is destroyed in a storm making the entire thing pointless.

Paddington 2 has a great line which is a riff on this stage direction and honestly I haven't even seen the whole film but I can guarantee it's brilliant because it came from the same mind.

same play as the bear, iirc.